Work Smarter not Harder

Make yourself indispensable

Travis Himes

0/5

What?

• Jenkins & Git
• WHAT is going on here?
• Undo order edits
• Dagger
  • Android, Dagger, and Databinding...
• Jack of all Trades, master of none

Today's talk

In Words

• Make you a 'better' developer
• Make your work easier
• More repeatable
• Faster

Learn *nix Tools

• Windows vs Mac / Linux​

  • ​Unix?

• ​grep / sed / awk

• command line tricks: 

  • last command edits

  • reverse search of commands

  • single entry history

  • non-history commands

• ​"man" pages

• brew

• But wait, there's more!

1/5

Learn Shell Scripting

• I primarily use bash, not the only shell!

• Mouse vs Keyboard

• Copy / Rename / Move

• Fix / Adjust

• Input

• Tips and Tricks!

Shell Scripting T&T

• Google it!

• echo it first!

• Write a usage statement

• Your tips & tricks?

*rc files

• Edit your .bashrc file

• Email it to yourself or write a gist!

• git tricks

  • git status

  • co -

• aliases:

  • up

  • login

  • quietLogs

  • clearData

  • airplane

  • notes

  • rmOrig

• What might you do?

Problem

For Example...

Not always!

Consider scale!

Interacting with APIs

• Control both API and Client?

• People element

• Software element

• Things change

• Trust but Verify

• "Can you take a look at this"

• "This doesn't work"

2/5

Testing API behavior

Server behaves differently, depending on device-specific behaviors

Options (worst first):

• Edit Client code
  • Always gets hardcoded response
  • Fake data to server for desired response
• MITM it
  • Intercept response, adjust it
  • Intercept request, adjust it

Charles

• Free Trial, but NOT free forever
• Pain to setup on android
• Awesome!
• Response rewrite
  • sed for server data!
  • Setup specific case yourself
• Request rewrite
  • sed for client calls...
  • Assert server behavior
• HTTPS too!
• Worth the $50

curl

• Command line
• Can write scripts
• Quick, easy, get it done
• Pipe it to jq for pretty JSON
• Send GCM notifications!

Postman

• UI for making REST calls
• Save calls
• Environments
• Variables
• Plenty to go into

Android Studio

• Setup for collaboration
  • Line Numbers!
• Mark Scheel "Android Studio is Wicked Pissah"
  • "Find Action"
• Learn Keyboard Shortcuts!
• Use Studio for merge conflict resolution
• Code Templates
• Plugins!

3/5

Helpful Plugins

• Mark Scheel: KeyPromoter
• Vim / Emacs plugin
• Dagger Plugin
  • What provides this?
  • What uses this?
• Otto plugin
• Anyone have a favorite?
   
• Not a plugin, but: KeyCastr

Android Studio Debugging Tricks

• Attach Debugger to running app
• Make breakpoints conditional
• Evaluate expressions while debugging
• Set value during debugging
  • including delete!
• Step into / Step out
• Learn the keyboard shortcuts!

Figure out how it works!

i.e. take apart the toaster, you just might learn something!

4/5

Don't be afraid to poke around!

• Don't get fired
• See what's possible
• "No" is easy, "Let me try" is better
• XML Drawables
  • there is a depth to be explored
  • idunnolol.com
• SVG 
  • LOGO anyone?
  • No Bezier here
  • DEMO (if time)

Collaborate aggressively

• Consider the bandwidth
  • Google Hangouts / Meet
  • ScreenHero
  • Slack or Hipchat
  • Email
  • Github or Trello
• Consider the audience
• Consider the problem

Share what you've learned

• "Rubber Ducking" anyone?
• Explaining it clarifies and solidifies it in your mind
• Stack Overflow
  • make a friendly competition
• Wikis
  • easy, quick, write it down
  • hacks
  • tricks
  • scripts
  • commands
• Talks
• Documentation

Push each other

• Compete with your peers!
• Golf challenges
• Speed challenges
• Language challenges
• FRIENDLY competition

Try for the 

The End!

Questions?

5/5

References:

https://goo.gl/1J1Hts

• www.google.com
• www.stackoverflow.com
• www.github.com
• http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
• https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html
• https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4455-key-promoter
• https://github.com/keycastr/keycastr
• https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164-ideavim
• www.google.com
• http://idunnolol.com/android/drawables.html

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